How to Backup and Restore in Virtualmin

Keeping that in mind, one should always be prepared for any kind of loss of data when building a website for business or any. Also, Backup and Restore in Virtualmin or Webminis different from other control panels; not many will be familiar with that process. Hoping that the below guide will help you in that process.

Backup of your Virtualmin domains:

Step 1: Log in to Virtualmin for your domain using domainaname:10000. For example, if the domain name is article.com, then article.com:10000. If you can’t log in via Virtualmin, get the access to Webmin URL and log in with your domain credentials.

In case you want to change the password, you can reset the password inside your Virtualmin account under change password.

Step 2: Go to “Backup and Restore” and click “Backup Virtual Servers”.

Schedule 1: Virtual Servers

1. Backup Description:

If you want to know what kind of backup you will be taking while checking, later on, you mention it as a description here.

2. Servers to Save:

Choose “All the virtual servers” from the three options so that the main domain files and addon/subdomain files will be backed up as listed in the text box.

• Only selected – Will only take backup of the selected domains.
• All except – It will exclude certain addons/subdomains in a backup.
• Include sub-servers of those selected – Any sub-servers, sub-domains or aliases of those selected above will also be included in the backup.

Schedule 2: Features and Settings:

If you want to make any changes to enable any particular features, click “Only those selected below” and select it or leave it as it is. By default, it will include all the features.

Schedule 3: Destination and Format

1. Backup Destinations:

-> You can choose one of the following destination formats to store your backup file:

• Download via link
• File under Virtualmin-backup/
• FTP server
• SSH server
• Webmin server
• Amazon S3
• bucket Rack space Cloud Files

For the best and easy option, choose “File under Virtualmin-backup or Download via the link” Continue the steps.

If you click the, download via link option, it will generate a downloadable link once generated the backup at the end of the page.

-> After choosing files under Virtualmin, specify the path name you want to set to store the backup. If you to store it in an already created folder inside the “Virtualmin-Backup” folder, click the select icon and choose the folder name.

-> If you want to delete the existing backup, click “Yes, after” and mention the days in number.

NOTE: If no text box shows, click any other option and choose again this option.

2. Additional destination options:

• Do strftime-style time – If enabled, you can create a custom timeframe folder with the date today.
• Transfer each virtual server – It will be enabled by default which you can leave as it is.

3. Backup format:

• Single archive file – To take backup of both main and addon/subdomains as a single file
• One file per server – To take a backup of both the main and addon/subdomain as two different files.

If you click “Create destination directory?”, each domain will be backed up into a separate file.

4. Action on error:

If there is any error or issue while the backup schedule going, you can choose between three options either halt backup immediately or continue with other features and servers or continue but don’t purge old backups. The action will be performed accordingly and process the backup.

• Halt backup immediately – Any error encountered during the backup process such as the failure of one of the features, it will cause the entire backup to halt.
• Continue with other features and servers  – It will not halt the backup for a single feature failure. Automated backups, it is helpful and at least save a partial backup.
• Continue, but don’t purge old backups – the purge will still be done even if the backup fails.

5. Include sub-servers in the backup:

Any sub-servers or aliases of the main domain will be included in the backup if choose yes.

6. Backup compression format:

The default option will compress the backup in tar.gz. format. You can choose another format if you don’t want the default format.

7. Backup level:

NOTE: To restore full account files, you must restore both full and incremental backups.

Virtualmin Restore from Backup: